Linux kernel 2.2.6-ac2 released | Linux Today

Linux kernel 2.2.6-ac2 released

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 24, 1999

No announcement was made, and there didn’t appear to have been a
2.2.6-ac1.

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Update: Rob Kennedy (of Linux-Howto fame) pointed out that
ac1 was released on April 16th. Dunno how we missed that…

Update Here is Alan Cox’s announcement:

 From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
 Subject: Linux 2.2.6ac2
    Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 12:08:17 +0100 (BST)
      To: editor@lwn.net, scoop@freshmeat.net, kernel@linuxtoday.com



Linux 2.2.6-ac2 is now on ftp.*.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/alan/2.2.

Differences from 2.2.6-ac1

o     Merged with Linus 2.2.7pre3
o     SF16FMI tweaks                            (Mikael Hedin)
o     FD_MCS fixes                              (David Weinehall)
o     Further IRDA update/fixesx                (Dag Brattli / Takahide)
o     Wavelan updates                           (Jean Tourrilhes)
o     I2O updates                               (Intel, Symbios)
o     Misc cleaning                             (me)
o     Make "nolock" work like 2.0 nfs           (Matthew Grant)
o     NTFS fixes                                (Steve Dodd)
o     SCSI defines/command updates              (Doug Gilbert)
o     Cleanups                                  (Manfred Spraul)
o     Optcd driver fixes                        (Jens Axboe)
o     Initial attempt to make eexpress SMP safe (me)
o     NFSv3 updates                             (Trond Myklebust)
o     First bits of I2O lan merge               (Juha Sievenen)
        | This won't build yet. There are merge collisions to
        | sort out
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